chiraag-kakar.github.io

Chiraag Kakar

Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India
- Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering,
- YGPA : 9.04/10.0
- Jun. 2018 – June 2022

Coda Payments Singapore (Remote) June 2022 – Present
- Part of Publisher Integration (PINT) team which helps in adding new gaming titles to the system via internal portals.
- Integrated 45 gaming titles both with standard and custom API specification which brings $ 5 million worth of monthly transactions.
- Used AWS Cognito Identity Pool to develop granular User-Management feature to help designate Internal Portal features to the respective teams.
- Designed and Developed API Test feature such that publisher APIs can be tested even by non-technical teams reducing dev dependency by 50%.
- Implemented API as a Service feature which makes all the PINT backend APIs reusable in a secured way and reduces dev effort by 70% per team.
- Worked on DB Indexing, Read through - Write Through Cache implementation to reduce latency of client-facing APIs in xShop portal by 10 times.
- Lead the entire testing for PINT and xShop frontend & backend services achieving an overall test coverage of 94%.
- Lead SonarQube integration in CI pipelines and Quality Gate setup for typescript based projects to automate code reviews followed by optimizing pipeline build time from 17 mins to 3 mins.
- Gained practical exposure to VueJs(Quasar), NodeJs(Typescript), Redis, AWS Services: DynamoDb, Cognito, Lambda.

Hyperverge Inc Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Jan 2022 – June 2022
- Worked as a DevOps Intern published terraform modules, configured & deployed CI runners on AWS, handled deployment to multiple ASGs.
- Worked on automation in the MasterDB team on reconciliation project to migrate services from OnPrem to Cloud.
- Gained practical exposure to NodeJs, MongoDb, Typescript, AWS, Terraform, Gitlab CI.

Sequoia Capital Remote Sep 2021 – Jan 2022
- Developing widgets for the mobile/web screens for Pathfinder app using Flutter framework and GetX for state-management.
- Wrote test cases for Profile, Support services for Pathfinder API, Increased test coverage for some of the services.
- Gained practical exposure to FastAPI, and Postgres.

Economize.Cloud Bengaluru, Karnataka, India May 2021 – Jul 2021
- Developed REST APIs using Golang and its Vue Components that interact with Google Cloud SDK.
- Worked on listing Committed Use Discount (CUD) and VM Disks for GCP projects of our users to help them optimize their cloud expenses.
- Gained practical exposure to Go, Redis, Vue.js, Postgres, and Google Cloud Platform.

Share N Learn Python, Django, Bootstrap, SQ-Lite Sep 2020 – Dec 2020
- Developed a Common Platform for Students & Faculties to upload and share content & study material, accessible to all registered members with customized dashboards.
- The Web Application is highly performant with an overall lighthouse score of 100.
- It comes with features like reCAPTCHA, Email-based authentication, OTP Implementation for Forgot Password.
- The Project is now open-source with 42 contributors, 46 stars, and 77 forks.
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Feel free to reach out to me via email or LinkedIn.